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Developing SOEPsurvey and SOEPservice : the (near) future of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Anger, Silke; Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Grabka, … - 2009

Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) ist als multidisziplinäres Haushaltspanel, das Informationen zu allen Personen, die in einem Panel-Haushalt leben, erhebt und damit alle Altersjahrgänge abdeckt, nach 25 Jahren Laufzeit auch zu einer Kohorten- Studie geworden. Der zunehmende Erfolg der...

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The Immigrant Welfare Effect : Take-Up or Eligibility?

Bird, Edward J.; Kayser, Hilke; Frick, Joachim R.; … - 2008

eligibility determinations difficult. In Germany, by contrast, eligibility for the main cash transfer program, Sozialhilfe (Social … test whether immigrants to Germany are more likely than natives to claim welfare benefits for which they are eligible. We …

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Leben außerhalb Deutschlands : eine Machbarkeitsstudie zur Realisierung von Auslandsbefragungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Schupp, Jürgen; Siegel, Nico A.; Erlinghagen, Marcel; … - 2008

-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). With the pilot study "Living outside Germany", the longitudinal German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP … residence prior to immigration (former West / former East Germany). However, significant age and earning-specific selectivity …

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Exemplarische Integration raumrelevanter Indikatoren auf Basis von "Fernerkundungsdaten“ in das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP)

Goebel, Jan; Wagner, Gert G.; Wurm, Michael - 2010

Der Beitrag zeigt räumliche Auswertungsmethoden durch die Einbindung von raumrelevanten Indikatoren aus Fernerkundungsdaten in die Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) auf Basis von Geo- Koordinaten. Durch die Verortung von Privathaushalten (ohne Darstellung der...

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The benefits of believing in chance or fate : external locus of control as a protective factor for coping with the death of a spouse

Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan Christian - 2010 - Former version

The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...

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Examining mechanisms of personality maturation : the impact of life satisfaction on the development of Big Five personality traits

Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan Christian - 2012

Individuals are expected to mature with increasing age, but it is not yet fully understood which factors contribute to this maturation process. Using data of a representative sample of Germans (N = 14,718) who gave information about their Big Five personality traits twice over a period of 4...

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Validating an ultra-short survey measure of patience

Vischer, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2012

This study presents results of the validation of an ultra-short survey measure of patience included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Survey responses predict intertemporal choice behavior in incentive-compatible decisions in a representative sample of the German adult population. --...

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Conversion of non-respondents in an ongoing panel survey : the case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

The results of a resurvey of non-respondents to the SOEP study carried out in 2006 show that this special effort of reinterviewing was relatively ineffective in two respects. First, the rate of successful conversions of passive to active respondents was low (less than 20 percent). Second, the...

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Terminal decline in well-being : the role of social orientation

Gerstorf, Denis; Hoppmann, Christiane A.; Löckenhoff, … - 2016

Well-being development at the end of life is often characterized by steep deteriorations, but individual differences in these terminal declines are substantial and not yet well understood. This study moved beyond the typical consideration of health predictors and explored the role of social...

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Selectivity processes in and weights for the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II)

Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

Like many medical studies, the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is based on a non-random "convenience sample" of self-recruited participants. To study processes of selectivity in BASE-II, we used an identical questionnaire to compare BASE-II with a large, representative reference study, the...

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